Metal Man (GM): Questers had been planning to deal with the Dark Meteor; they also wanted to deal with Red Text, however. So they called for Samus' help and got some GF help, thus retrofitting Dr. Eggman's ship for space flight. The Questers would be aboard Dr. Eggman's ship now; the Egg Carrier... or is it a new name now? It looks more futuristic. Eggman is at the controls, with the group in the bridge. The transformed Deloth doppelganger is on the side.

Dr. Robotnik: "So, remind me one more time. What exactly shall we do first?"

Aribar stands off to the side and shrugs. This is for the others to decide.

Julian: *Doesn't know what the fuck.*

Digifanatic: "We have to get Samus on the Dark Meteor, hopefully it'll be better off if we can drop her off."

Metal Man (GM): Red Text is on the left, Dark Meteor to the right. Dark Meteor thing is gonna attack Red Text. But Red Text has a weapon which draws off the life of the planet. So if Red Text uses it, he'll destroy the planet AND The Dark Meteor.

Digifanatic: "When we get in close, the Meteor's gonna launch some ships at us. We just need to blow them up with our weaponry so we can safely get Samus on the meteor."

Dr. Robotnik: "Let's see... what does THIS one do?" He presses an unmarked button.

Digifanatic: "And if we have any time bombs we can plant as well, more power to us. And if we have any time bombs we can plant as well, more power to us. But we are not going to allow Red Text to use enough power such that he drains the life force from this planet."

Julian: "So we're jus' drawin' fire off Samus so got time to do her thing, then goin' after Red Text?"

Metal Man (GM): A warp forms in space. Since Dr. Robotnik doesn't have it set to anything in particular, a warp to a strange world opens, and someone who looks like this falls out of it. http://scatha-the-worm.deviantart.com/art/Dec-Request-Kenku-109219786

Julian: "..."

Dr. Robotnik: "Woah! They integrated the warp into the ship? This will be... very handy."

Dragoshi: "..."

Dr. Robotnik: "...Although I apologize, I had no clue it was set to... 'Unknown Source.'"

Digifanatic: *muttering.* "You know, it'd be so much better off if they just walked up to us, I swear..."

Kenku: *With no sword out, he lands on the floor with a thud.* "Ow..." *He says as he gets up and looks around at the strange people both somewhat normal, and some 'Hairless.'* "What the hell?!?" *He yells.*

Dr. Robotnik: "My sentiments exactly."

Julian: "Hey, it talks!"

Aribar looks towards the newcomer.* .oO(This is the second furry being to literally fall into our midst...)

Dr. Robotnik: *Presses the button again. Nothing happens.* "It must have been a stray capacitor charge..." *Tweaks the button.* *Spark.* "Egh. Well, I have the ship ready. Shall we launch? I will need some of your help, though. This panel is far too large for me to reach all of the buttons with my armspan alone!" *Tweaks an eyebrow.* "Yes. It is real. Of course, I know what happened. You were sent here because I pressed a button."

Dragoshi: "...Well of course it's real. What'd you expect this to be? A world where everyone turned into Tang upon dying?"

Dr. Robotnik: "A button which malfunctioned, and tore a hole across dimensions."

Julian: "It happens."

Aribar: "Greetings, and welcome to... I don't think this planet has a name, so, welcome to here."

Dr. Robotnik: "This dimension is like a giant black hole, so it is too easy to suck new people into it."

Julian: "Welcome to a big goddamn ship. We're about to go blow up an asteroid, you in?"

Dr. Robotnik: "Now... shall we get to work?" He gestures to the control panel.

Digifanatic: "Yeeeees, indeed."

Dr. Robotnik: "There are two other positions here. One is of the coordinator." He points to his left. "They help keep the ship running. To the right is..." He points. "The navigator. They talk to others and ensure we are moving properly."

Kenku was about to make a comment about being in a video game world or something when he hears sword "Why the crap would I be helping to blow up an asteroid! I'm just a gaming geek... see even my sword is..." he cuts himself off as he sudden draws a very nice looking Italian long sword. "Wow..."

Metal Man (GM): Dr. Robotnik points to his own seat. With his long arms, he in fact reaches what should be two positions. He apparently wants to control it all.

Dr. Robotnik: "These are the main controls, and weapon controls. I assure you, it is meant for both to be controlled by the same person." As he sits awkwardly to reach both panels at once. "Who here is good with... computers?"

Digifanatic: "Lemme at it." *walks up.*

Julian: *puts hands up.* "Look, the most advanced piece'a tech I ever used GOOD was a Dex. Ship controls an' shit's more of a Digi territory."

Dr. Robotnik: *Takes out some items.* "I'll be ready to sell them in a bit... I have to build a proper stand! I was busy building your ship."

Metal Man (GM): He sets up a little stand as the ship begins to fly into space. The Questers can see, for the first time, both enemy space things. To the left is a red, Eggman-esque base with weird shiny metal additions to it, and a force field. To the right is a gigantic meteor with what looks like a space ship embedded into it. The ship is heading to the right.

Julian: "I got time." *Goes to watch the fireworks/prepare to beat shit up while Eggman sets up his Mystical Murder Stand.*

Metal Man (GM): The orange ship... it's a speck now, but a little point appears on screen to show it's Samus' ship. It's en route to meet the group at the Dark Meteor. One can look out a back window and see the planet everyone was on. It's a really large, cloud-shrouded planet that seems almost staticy-in places.

Digifanatic: *just focuses on his station for now... he can sightsee after.*

Dr. Robotnik: "Hm. Sensors show the planet we were on is in the midst of a massive dimensional rift. No wonder so many people came and went so easily! We shall have to fix this later. Er." *He looks to Kenku.* "Have any questions, while I set this up?" *Attaches a shiny neon tube to a power device.*

Kenku: "Umm... well... first off... I apologize if this sounds weird... but why have you kinda become good?"

Digifanatic: *mutters.* "Long story."

Dr. Robotnik: "Heh..." He points to the two objects out there. "Only for the moment! Those other two monsters out there threaten to destroy the planet."

Kenku: "I see..."

Dr. Robotnik: "I can't rule a planet if it is destroyed, see. But once this is over... we shall probably be enemies." He chuckles. "Although unlike them I won't be so... mean. I prefer to defeat rather than destroy. The great genius of Dr. Robotnik cannot be experienced if one is dead, after all!"

Kenku nods to this. He has read too many Sonic Comics and played too many games not to.

Dr. Robotnik: "Although Sonic..." He scratches his chin. "He I might try to remove, if only because he ruins everything evil I do. Wonder where he is right now, even!"

Digifanatic: "No idea."

Julian: "Yeah, this guy's double-crossed us like, 4 or 5 times already. Hell, he's probably gonna do it again after we get ridda Red Text."

Julian: "Fuck if I know. We're gonna go beat up a robot, that's about it."

Digifanatic: "Okay, seen as how we're in a cruising situation, anything you'd like to ask us that you think we can help explain?"

Kenku: "First off... What were you just talking about about the planets energy and diverting it?!?"

Digifanatic: "Right. We used to do our work on another planet, but it got to the point there was nothing left to be quelled. We managed all the peace we could find. So we were offered the chance to warp out of there into the planet we're flying out of right now, given little information except the fact that we had a chance to continue the jobs we've had before."

Kenku nods, understanding this as he continues to listen.

Julian: "That and the dimension we was in collapsed."

Digifanatic: "Yeah... this is a dimension in which we've seen people and... non-people we've interacted with before, but because this is a different dimension, they don't know us. But we're kinda familiar with them..."

Kenku: "I see."

Digifanatic: "Like Dr. Robotnik. We encountered him several times in the past dimension as a sworn enemy, but because of this dimension's Robotnik being little aware of our backgrounds, we've got a truce made out until all these crises are over with. Now, this Red Text guy... is another story. Completely anonymous, no idea who he is, but it's pretty certain it's a guy."

Kenku: "Not even Robotnik?"

Digifanatic: "He doesn't know either."

Kenku: "Hmm... k... Guess I was making the wrong assumptions."

Digifanatic: "We were doing one mission a while back, and somehow this guy got a hold of the vehicle we were in... And somehow, he's hooked himself up to a source of energy from a bunch of temples on this planet which helps keep this place in order. Don't know how he did it, or where or when, but we know he does. He wants to do whatever malicious ideas possible to this planet... but he realizes that we've all got a decent gift for fighting. He's given us a series of seven tests. This is number four. Supposedly, after the seventh is done, he'll I guess reveal his identity and challenge us to a fair fight. I'm not sure how well you want to believe the 'reveal his identity' and 'fair fight' parts, but we've heard that much from the guy. Good enough for you?"

Kenku: "Almost... you didn't answer my original question."

Digifanatic: "Right. As I said, Red Text dude is hooked up to the planet's energy system. His initial idea was to destroy this meteor we're heading for with some laser or something based off the temples' energy. Problem is, guess what happens if he uses too much of it."

Kenku: "The planet dies... but why divert it... can't you just break the link?"

Digifanatic: "Well, we're not sure what'll happen if we do. There could be some serious instabilities on either end of this system if we break it in half."

Kenku: "I see." *He says with a sigh.* "Well... I guess my only other comment is I hope that diverting it doesn't cause as much of a disaster... unless you mean back into the planet itself."

Digifanatic: "Yeah. Like if we can just keep the energy in a loop among the temples or just in a place where it won't go haywire."

Kenku: "Yeah... that would be one way. I think that mostly answers everything right now... well... stuff that isn't crazy biology or something."

Digifanatic: *takes a glance.* "Nice sword."

Kenku pulls it back out and inspects it "Yes... I'm actually surprised I have it... when I was back home, the closist thing I had touched to it was something shaped like it made out of duct tape."

Digifanatic: "Oh wow. I'm usually not a sword person but that's cool, man."

Kenku: "Yea... I mean... I took some lessons with one of my colleges clubs... but this will be strange at first... it weighs so weirdly... and all I was using in the VR place was a dinky hilt simulator..."

Kenku: "Not really... it was a experimental program for the Con. Gamer that I am, I definitely wanted to check it out. And I guess... thats how I got here."

Digifanatic: "Oh... yeah, they might be wondering where you are right around now..."

Kenku: "Yea... they probably are..."

Digifanatic: "Hmm... Okay, since you seem to be more of a technological type, and I presume you're from some Earth out there, whichever one it is, take a quick look at me. Do I look familiar to you, like someone presenting a story about me? This is just to see if you're from the same dimension as I am."

Kenku: "I must say... you are probably not... my planet has no one who is as Hairless and you and someone like Robotnik is..."

Digifanatic: "Anyways, I guess it's good to relax for now, but soon enough, we've got more dirty work to pull."

Kenku: "I guess" *He says, and starts to loosen and take off the heavy Jacket.*

Metal Man (GM): Aboard the Super Egg Carrier, a little while later...

Dr. Robotnik: "Hm... the new recruit has tired... I could understand... we've been waiting for a while. Space is huge, after all."

Rinith: "I don't like being in space too much myself..."

Digifanatic: "Yeah, hmm, who else can take over?"

Aribar: "If this is a worst-case-scenario kind of thing, then I could TRY to help."

Aribar looks about. No one is taking up the reigns, so the half-elf has to do it... He steps up to where Kenku was.* "What did he have to do again?"

Dragoshi: "Well... I could help with that, then."

Digifanatic: "Alright, then. If you feel up for it, please go ahead."

Dr. Robotnik: "As the Coordinator, you just make sure the ship is working by being ready to use necessary safety systems. Now, to save some time... how many of you need weapon-related work, and how many need items?"

Aribar looks at Dragoshi and quickly steps back. "Then you do it. I don't particularly want to fill Kenku's shoes."

Metal Man (GM): Kenku wakes up and continues working at the Coordinator station like nothing happened.

Rinith: "I have some odd coins to work with."

Kenku: "What type of items?"

Rinith: *looks at the 10 coins he kind of picked up.* "I can use these... right?"

Aribar looks back to Kenku. "Oh, you're back up. We thought you were too tired to continue being the Coordinator and were going to switch to someone else."

Dr. Robotnik: "Healing and some small utility items."

Kenku: "Oh, sorry about that... heh."

Digifanatic: "Ah, well, I have some change left over. I'll be glad to take a look."

Digifanatic: "I'm also interested in the explosives route. And I always like healing items as well."

Metal Man (GM): He takes out a black box and quietly unlocks it.

Dr. Robotnik: "The Eggman... Bombom. Just ONE can destroy an entire island. Cannot be stopped once it is activated. Bonds to surfaces with permanent glue. ...70 coins apiece."

Julian: "Sounds great for blowin' up the meteor."

Dr. Robotnik: "Of course... I will give you one for free, so that the meteor will be destroyed."

Metal Man (GM): He hands Julian one.

Dr. Robotnik: "But you may want more!"

Digifanatic: "Oh, that's good."

Dr. Robotnik: "...I only carry three on my person at a time, though. For safety reasons. They're not very volatile and have a slow start-up time, so that the person who sets it can run away. But dropping one face-down could activate the timer."

Dr. Robotnik: "When I fought GUN, they watched in horror as entire cities exploded. They used to have a whole lot of cities. Not anymore." He then slides a plate of sandwiches, and a pile of bandage boxes at Digi.

Dr. Robotnik: "Yes." He smirks. "I announced preemptively of the bombs."

Kenku: "Oh."

Dr. Robotnik: "Few people were harmed directly, due to my GENIUS. Only the buildings! Because less GUN buildings meant more land for me. Anyway... the sandwich will heal any issue you have. The bandages work for smaller jobs."

Dr. Robotnik: "A crust of feeling normal with the meat of health and the cheese of sanity. Another of my great inventions!"

Aribar: "I may wish to purchase one when I'm a bit richer."

Dr. Robotnik: "...And the only reason I still am alive. That hedgehog... Hm. We're almost there. Anyone else need something?"

Rinith: *...* "Nope."

Digifanatic: "Aribar, considering the possessed guy is still adamant about using Deloth for a while, I don't think a sandwich will work. I've said before, this is a situation I don't think we can loophole around."

Dr. Robotnik: "Bah. My genius is greater than that of any possessor!"

Aribar: "We'll save it for after he's done using Deloth. But, on foresight, I'm sure Robotnik has a better refrigerator than the pocket in my mantle..."

Dr. Robotnik: "Yes."

Metal Man (GM): He idly opens a panel no one knew existed and sticks the sandwiches into it.

Dr. Robotnik: "...Unfortunately, there is no room for refrigerators in any equipment smaller than I am. Although you give me an idea... a GENIUS idea... for later." He walks to the control panel. "The Dark Meteor is going to attack us soon. To battlestations!"

Rinith: "I'll help the best I can... I haven't hit much since I entered your damn world though!"

Dr. Robotnik: *flip.* A gunner station appears out of the wall. "You, Dragoshi... control a side gun. I can't have too many active without removing the instant destruction capability of my main fire, though!"

Dragoshi: *Nods, then goes to man a side gun.*

Dr. Robotnik: "Here we go!" The ship flies into combat range.

Metal Man (GM): He flips a button and fires. *BLAM* One of the ships is down.

Dr. Robotnik: "..." He points to Julian. "You! Run over there and unjam it! It's probably a stuck gear... I think they are trying to knock out the lightning gun. ..." He points to Rinith. "Okay, you unjam it!"

Julian: "Zzz..." *Bubble snap.* "Huh?" *Looks at the generator.* "So just bash it or what?"

Dr. Robotnik: "Bash the debris in it! A strike hit the section... some debris flew around."

Julian: *Julian gets up from where he was sitting/sleeping and goes to put the beatdown on some debris. Bat Time!*

Dr. Robotnik: "Can you manifest light only? Darkness will only help them."

Metal Man (GM): Only 6 ships left now. They fires, still capable of performing their higher powered volley.

Rinith: "Perhaps, though only a small amount."

Metal Man (GM): They still hit, the lightning generator spazzes out. All Kenku can think of is 'LIGHTNING GENERATOR AT CRITICAL.' Another sector is also on fire, and another generator is losing power.

Dr. Robotnik: "Well. We might need to improvise." He looks to Kenku. "Status?"

Metal Man (GM): Julian sees the generator. It's not jammed, but it is overheating something fierce. It has also been dented and the hull around it is losing its... strength...

Kenku: "Not very good... There isn't a chance the gun could cause damage to the rest of the ship would it?"

Digifanatic: "Ari?"

Dr. Robotnik: "If it overloads it can take out a large portion of the ship. And most of our generators."

Julian: *And the brawler with no technical skills is supposed to do... what, exactly?* "Hey! Doc! The generator's gettin' hot!"

Aribar: "Yeah?"

Digifanatic: "What's the chance we can bottle up another Terrorbolt out of you and toss it at another ship?"

Kenku starts to reroute power. "Umm... unless someone can do some major work on it... its preetty close to busted."

Dr. Robotnik: *Well, just that.* "Okay... the Lightning gun is too precious to waste." He shuts it down. It begins to cool down. "Now for our alternate artillery." He brings up an energy gun device. "I need more than just energy, or else it'll be pea shooting."

Aribar: "I would say slim; I would probably be far too warn out to fight along side of you in the ship."

Dr. Robotnik: "How many of you, including that other person, have holy powers or objects? These enemies are dark. If I can fire holy-aligned energy at them, it should rip through them. But we'll have to go a round without being able to shoot at them... well, besides Dragoshi. So I need at least one other bit of holy energy to... er... 'bless' the gun."

Julian: "Where's that smart-ass angel when ya need him..."

Rinith: "I don't have the strongest holy powers..."

Dragoshi: "Well, I can shoot things with light energy, but, as you can see I'm manning the side gun over here, so..."

Aribar: "I used up my store of diverse magic; now I can only throw lightning and ice."

Metal Man (GM): He takes out a bunch of wiring and gets out his multitool.

Dr. Robotnik: "Focus your energies into this... but don't do it too much, or we'll all be on fire. Holy fire."

Deloth: "I'll see what I can do..."

Metal Man (GM): Deloth's possessor conjures up a lot of holy energy. What will Rinith conjure up? Eggman then works on the device as it glows... It is successfully upgraded. He smacks the wiring back into the panel.

Dr. Robotnik: "All right... Julian, come in here. They're going to keep firing at the lightning gun. And it won't be pretty."

Metal Man (GM): They do just that!

Rinith: "Eh... doing just one type without the other makes me feel odd."

Metal Man (GM): *BLAMBLAMBLAM* The lightning gun area begins to lose integrity. Kenku does everything he can to deter hull depressurizations. Unfortunately, Julian will have to run or else be trapped in there sooner or later! The original damaged generator comes back online, having repaired itself.

Kenku: "Running on all cylinders generator wise."

Julian: *Run!*

Dr. Robotnik: "Excellent!"

Aribar: "Digi, I don't mean to be mean, but have you dodged a single shot?!"

Metal Man (GM): Julian runs in as a door slams behind him.

Digifanatic: "Actually, I have not... Not my fault, though. They've been pretty sharp..."

Dr. Robotnik: "As long as one of you two is successful, we'll live. And... this ship is huge. It isn't really good at dodging."

Dragoshi: *Right. Time to shoot another ship. A-yep.*

Metal Man (GM): *BLAM* 5.5 ships left. Next round.

Dr. Robotnik: "This new thing can fire twice without overheating. And it's holy, so it retains its insta-kill... Mwoohoo hoo hoo!"

Aribar fires off a single, big shot of ice magic at the generator. Freeze!

Metal Man (GM): It freezes. Eggman gives a thumbs up.

Dragoshi: .oO(...I forgot about that. Huh.)

Dr. Robotnik: "Give my regards to Dark Force, you tiresome fool!"

???: "Gahhhhhhhhh!!!!"

Metal Man (GM): He flies back, blitzing with electricity.

Dragoshi: *Moar shootan!*

Metal Man (GM): *BLAM* The radio goes silent from the enemy mech thing. Then it blows up as the Super Egg Carrier rams the broken bits into oblivion.

Samus: *Radio.* "I've cleared up a place for you to land."

Dr. Robotnik: "Excellent. We're in!"

Dragoshi: "Wonderful."

Digifanatic: "Very nice!"

Metal Man (GM): The ship repairs itself almost fully as it goes to land in a small, barren metallic area. Coincidentally, this was where the ships that were blown up once were moored. It passes through a small barrier, which, for some reason, is an atmosphere... no space suits here.

Dr. Robotnik: "Land us then, Mr. Digifanatic."

Metal Man (GM): The ship lands, relatively undamaged, and with the space above being filled with millions of little pieces.

Kenku: "Hmm... would be useful if someone could recycle that junk."

Samus: *Radio.* "There's two parts to this place. One part is the bridge, and the other is the core. I'm going to the Bridge. You blow up the core and the whole thing will be destroyed."

Rinith: *calms down once more.* -.-

Samus: "Just go straight down through the interior until you can't go any further down. You'll be there."

Aribar: "And yet, you've only been here for a fraction of the time we have!"

Dr. Robotnik: "Don't worry. You'll get used to it."

Metal Man (GM): The Questers leave down the ramp. They're on an utterly alien world with a black sky and cold, steel floor. It's like a massive ruin. There's the vague foundations of ancient buildings everywhere.

Julian: "Ain't this a sight..."

Kenku: "Wow... must be some sort of structure, like the death star."

Metal Man (GM): There is no real way inside. Just a ruined building growing with some bizarre alien overgrowth next to two ruined ships.

Dragoshi: *Just readies his Blaster in one hand and the Bread in the other, while looking around...*

Metal Man (GM): Ancient signs which are written in an illegible language line the area. The only one any Quester could hope to understand is a giant 'X'.

Kenku goes to see if it looks sectioned, like a doorway.

Aribar follows the others over. "I wonder if it could be as simple as 'X marks the spot'."

Rinith: "I'll be fine if we stay out of space as much as possible." *looks and sniffs around.*

Metal Man (GM): The building ahead has a door on it, which has another strange symbol on it. The X isn't a doorway, but rather a sign. It's old and broken, and flickers. There are some faint, dried bloodstains at its base.

Kenku: "Hmmm..." *He tries to sniff the blood, and see if it leads anywhere.*

Aribar: "How did the pilots of those ships get into the meteor?"

Metal Man (GM): It's faint. But Kenku would notice the ground is more worn towards that ruined building up ahead.*

Metal Man (GM): The first one walks up to Rinith and does a big ol' slash. Rinith is knocked over. The La Dimenian then walks up and attacks Aribar with a slash.

Rinith: "Gah!"

Aribar desprately tries to swing up his sword to block the slash!

Metal Man (GM): Aribar is knocked over. The one to its right then goes to attack Julian with two slashes! Miss and a hit. The third one then walks over to attack Kenku, then Digi. Kenku takes damage and is knocked over. Digi also takes some damage.

Digifanatic: *SLASHZOR'D.*

Kenku grimaces in serious pain.

Aribar is knocked down to the ground and is in quite a bit of pain. If this was their first encounter, then how are they supposed to get through the entire ship?! He points his sword up towards the fighter that slashed him and fires a blast of icy energy at him.

Rinith: *holds his heavy bleeding wound.* "D-damn it."

Metal Man (GM): It stands there as it snows lightly over it.

Digifanatic: .oO(Where's our tank when we NEED HER?)

Digifanatic has no idea how well these guys can dodge, so he just starts with Icy Kick to Fire Punch on #1, playing it safe.

Metal Man (GM): Hit and a miss.

Rinith: *plays it very defensively, going for a slash with his scimitar, then using cover.*

Metal Man (GM): Miss.

Kenku tries to knock the sword out of the enemies hand, and then stand up and slam his enemies face.

Metal Man (GM): Hit, hit, hit. On the third one, it tries to parry, but instead smashes itself into Julian. Both it and Julian hit eachother for extra damage. But all hit, too. It breaks apart and dies. Apparently it's a glass cannon. Two remaining.

Julian: "YEAH! THAT'S WHAT YOU GET!"

Dragoshi: *Attempts to shoot them both down at once with three shots from his EGG BLASTA.*

Metal Man (GM): Triple lutz. I mean failure. All hit. Dragoshi's gun laughs evilly as the Dimenian is hit over and over again. The Dimenian dies. Another La Dimenian slashes once at Dragoshi, then once at Julian. It misses Julian entirely. Must be Julian channeling the scout archetype.

Dragoshi: *Winces as he takes the blow. Ow... Almost down to half health already.* e_e

Aribar tries to fire another blast of ice at the Dimenian that just attacked.

Aribar: "I suppose we randomly stand on them and hope for the best; I would imagine it is some sort of security feature."

Rinith: *gets on a button.*

Julian: *Julian cautiously stands on one.*

Digifanatic: "They're all identical... that's the annoying part."

Kenku tries to sit down for a minute and study whats going on.

Metal Man (GM): Click... click... For each one the Questers stand on, the door turns a bit green. As does the button.

Aribar: "Huh." *The half-elf goes to stand on one.*

Kenku gets up and stands on one if there still is one.

Metal Man (GM): All of them are stood on, and the door opens to the next room. There is a sort of elevator device in the center of the room. But it is deactivated; as told by the three switches standing right next to it.

Rinith: -.-

Kenku regains his composure a little and starts messing with the switches.

Digifanatic: *heads in and examines the three switches.*

Aribar looks about the room to ensure that there's nothing hiding somewhere to try and catch them by surprise.

Metal Man (GM): The switches have a simple toggle button atop them.

Kenku turns on the first and third switches.

Metal Man (GM): Aribar finds nothing. Kenku turns on the first and third; one... two switches remaining to be turned on?

Kenku turns on the others.

Metal Man (GM): Kenku turns on the second, but... the fourth one is hidden.

Kenku wonders why nothing is happening and pads the panel, looking for another.

Metal Man (GM): Digi finds another switch. He turns it on, and the elevator down is active. It goes down from here.

Kenku goes over to the elevator, and looks for a minute before going in.

Dragoshi: *Does the same as Ari. Safety first!*

Metal Man (GM): Dragoshi finds no traps. This place is a little bit under defended, in fact.

Digifanatic: *follows.*

Julian: *Elevator!*

Metal Man (GM): Sans those toughs the Questers pushed over earlier. The elevator goes down. Down there is what was once some ancient city.

Rinith: o.o

Metal Man (GM): It keeps going down, as the vast destruction of what must have been an entire planet becomes visible... or was it a city-planet ship? A distant voice begins to echo in the air.

Digifanatic: "Ohhhh, wow."

Aribar loks across the width of their vista and wonders what this place is..

Aribar tries to use his magic to slow down the elevator to a less-than-lethal speed. Kinesis x 5!

Metal Man (GM): Those who use magic would sense the energy being weakened from an external force. The elevator slows down.

Kenku pants and huff...

Digifanatic: *In reality, he probably wouldn't be speechless, but meh.*

Metal Man (GM): The elevator slowly lands on the final part, revealing a massive ship, and its core, which is linked to the surrounding planet.

Julian: "..."

Dragoshi: "..."

Julian: "Got our target, let's go blow it up."

Digifanatic: "Whoever was responsible for slowing it down, thank you."

Dragoshi: "Let's."

Aribar: "You're welcome."

Rinith: -.- *opens his eyes.* "So where were we."

Samus: *Radio.* "A-HAH! There he is!"

Metal Man (GM): *BLAM.*

???: "Gahhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

Aribar: .oO(But heere's hoping that it'll allow us to go back up it..)

Kenku nods and gets out of the elevator, hand on his sword.

???: "You will... you will... not... t..." A whole army of Dimenians appear, but they quickly fall apart.

Samus: *Radio.* "We've got his attention divided. Run in and take out his power source!"

Digifanatic: *moves into the core.*

Kenku follows Digi.

Julian: "Let's go! Sooner we get to the core, sooner we can get outta here!" *Running to the core!*

???: "...N... o..."

Dragoshi: "Understood. I'll mock him along the way as well. Yanno. Just for kicks." *Follows behind.*

Rinith: *runs after Digi.*

Metal Man (GM): The door into the ship shuts.

Dragoshi: *Mockingly.* "Y... e...s..."

Aribar follows after Julian and the others.* "That won't keep us out."

Julian: *BREAK.*

Kenku decides to test his swords strength on the door.

Metal Man (GM): *SMASH* The door is broken in. Inside is a weird, ruined cityscape. The way to the generator is blocked by a sparking electrical cable sitting atop of an unlocked metal door.

Dragoshi: "...really."

Julian: "Move that cable!"

Digifanatic wonders how much current is in that wire...

Dragoshi: .oO(That's the best the guy could come up with?) *Shakes head, disappointed.*

Aribar: "I should be able to move it safely." *He looks over the wire and wonders if his magic could move it safely aside.*

Julian: "Well you gonna do it or jus' talk at it?"

Aribar: *Uses Kinesis to move the wire!* "I was just mulling over whether or not this is actually a trap..."

Metal Man (GM): The door can now be used.

Julian: *Go Go Go!*

Kenku walks through.

Dragoshi: *Movin' on...*

Metal Man (GM): The Questers reach the reactor. *BLAM.*

Digifanatic: *Uh oh, blam?*

Samus: *Radio.* "I got him... ????" *Radio cuts out.*

Metal Man (GM): A towering dark figure appears between the Questers and the reactor.

Digifanatic: "Huh?"

Kenku: "Ah crud buckets."

Julian: "Here we go, Mr. Big Ugly hisself..."

???: "I can see in your minds... you have fought my servants before... but without me... they are nothing..."

Metal Man (GM): The entire place rumbles as the dark being powers up with energy directly from the reactor.

Dragoshi: .oO(...yeah, I got nothin'.)

Rinith: *tries to push any force OUT of his mind, even if it was just fluff text.*

Aribar holds up his blade defensively. The mage thinks of all of his options for the coming battle and wishes that he didn't waste all of his energy on Robotnik's ship.* "Soon you will be nothing."

Dark Force: "Your powers mean nothing besides mine. But I will not waste my time speaking..." He shows his form; a massive being of darkness which is nearly 40 feet tall. "I will render you into particles too finite to see!"

Digifanatic: *mutters to Ari.* "Void 2.0..."

Julian: "Yeah yeah yeah..." *Julian patches the rest of his wounds real quick with his last medkit.* "You ain't nothin' but a big-ass punk that's gonna die like the rest of 'em!" *Julian then draws his nail bat yet again and tries to go cuckoo-crazy on DF's leg.*

Metal Man (GM): Julian hits him... both times. He does not so much as dodge.

Kenku stands there looking at the thing towering over him, with a slight tinge of fear "I am not scared... I am not scared... you're saving a planet for crying out loud!" He starts to close his eyes and focuses on something in his mind.

Dark Force: "You doubt my power. Continue to do so... you will never see it coming."

Aribar points his blade towards Dark Force. Steam rises from his sword as ice begins to form about it. The frigid projectile forms and lances forth towards the darkness. Freeze!*

Metal Man (GM): He is hit, and fatigued.

Rinith: *leaps at the think for a spectacular combo with both his weapons, DUSK AND DAWN X2! putting all reckless power behind the weapons in the offensive combo.

Metal Man (GM): Both hit...

Digifanatic decides to go for something rather entertaining and in fact, is something he hasn't done in a while. He digs into his pockets and takes out an odd, oval-shaped, plasticlike object that kinda looks like a cell phone with waaaaay too many missing buttons. He aims it at DF and fires off two moderate beams of light. *Three, in fact.*

Metal Man (GM): Both hit. Dark Force takes all the damage.

Dark Force: "You throw a good punch..." He holds a massive hand. "But I can unleash the fury of hell itself."

Metal Man (GM): He's made of solid darkness. Zio was about a small bottle full of his energy vs. this. The Void could maybe bite his kneecaps.

Julian: *Wipes the sweat from his brow after dodging the falling balls of death, looking up at the top of DF.* "Man... he's too much. Void wasn't even this hard. But... I ain't goin' out like this." *Julian shakes his head back and forth twice to clear the cobwebs, then starts bouncing from foot to foot while throwing some shadow punches.* "Not at the bottom a' some hellhole comet. Not like a punk. Not by YOU." *Yet another charging Final Smash!*

Metal Man (GM): The Final Smash is charged. The foe is a 40 foot being of darkness, being powered by an entire ship's reactor. Samus shot him full o' missiles before he even came down here and he's still ready to rip people to shreds. And surrounding him are the ruins of not one, but two civilizations he destroyed.

Rinith: *stops gathering energy as his hands begin to glow, both of them pure white with holy energy which then extends slowly in to his scimitar and shortsword. Dashing at the hulking beast, Rinith slashes once quickly with the off handed weapon and leaps.* "STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MY MIND" *At this he enters a flury of blows with the glowing weapons, all the while gathering what energy he could around himself and within himself, until each blow was a great giant wave of shimmering light and his fur even gave off some. Half floating there in the quick and powerful onslaught Rinith drops his shortsword and grips the scimitar with both hands. "BE GONE!" Rinith cleaves down with the pure white blade, landing and swinging a large arc of brelent energy again, then taking the energy he had. been gathering and firing it in a huge beam from the sky on intensely focused energy, putting every ounce of his own power behind it, even if he would pass out, to take this being out, or at least weaken him enough that the rest of the group would have a better time doing so. falling to his knees and his scimitar slipping out of his hand at the end of it all.

Metal Man (GM): Dark Falz stands there through all of this. He isn't gonna be killed by it. Buuuut... a massive amount of damage is done, and it appears Rinith has given him a single scratch.

Dark Force: "So, you are not entirely worthless." He laughs. "It is still a fool's errand to fight me!"

Rinith: *looks up.* "D-d-damn it... Finish it... Digi..."

Digifanatic stands in the same position he was last turn, head bowed to the ground... once again, he reaches into his pockets and clutches the odd machine he pulled out two turns ago. He pulls it out and holds it to his midsection, and suddenly, a huge aura of light which is best described as maroonish-white emanates from his body. He suddenly levitates a few feet, which catches him off guard, as this is something he hasn't done in a very long while. The glow becomes brighter and brighter, almost to the point where it's hard to tell there's still a person inside it. With a sudden rush of energy and adrenaline, he charges forth and blasts once through Dark Force, pounding at him with intense light-like energy. He turns around, and starts the same motion in the opposite direction, stopping inside his body, as if the Quester himself was incorporeal.

Metal Man (GM): He is hit heavily again; a small bruise and some more cuts appear. He seems almost amused by the Questers' desperate attacking.

Digifanatic concentrates the energy one last time as he stays inside DF's body, letting out a final "AHHHH-HHH!" scream, before what seems to be a large explosion of energy appears from DF's body. If he hits hard enough, one may actually sees holes of darkness from inside DF and other parts vaporized away. The explosion sends Digi hurtling back towards the group, catching the ground before threatening other Questers. He gets up practically none the worse for wear. "I'm gonna need to come up with a name for that..."

Rinith: "D... damn... it... all."

Metal Man (GM): Dark Force takes some more damage, but is still standing.

Digifanatic: *quietly.* "So THAT'S how Celestial Fury's been hiding on me all this time... but wait, that was nothing like Celestial Fury. It never had that explosion..."

Metal Man (GM): The Questers get a radio call.

Dr. Robotnik: *Radio.* "Plant the bomb, you fools! He can't be destroyed!"

Dark Force: "How did that get through?" The radio goes silent again. "You will all die."

Julian: *A record scratches somewhere as Julian snaps out of his charging state.* "...Coulda said that earlier!"

Dark Force: "Normally, I would taunt you, then give you a last chance to defend yourselves before destroying you." He shakes his head. "But after the last group of people killed me with powers from another dimension for that... you shall have no mercy!" It rains more death.

Rinith: *grabs his two swords and defends himself quickly.* "Get the bomb!" *then readies for the darkness.* "I'm not good with such things, I'll distract him more."

Metal Man (GM): He then releases darkness again. The Questers manage to hug the borderline and survive.

Rinith: *is running low on resolve.*

Dark Force: "Give my regards to those who have failed to kill you. They were pathetic."

Julian: *Looks up at the big bad again.* "Man... fuck this." *Julian then rears his head back and roars, expunging his gathered Smash energy to give him a boost and enter Blazin' mode.* "YEAAAAAH!" *Julian gains a look of determination, grabs the bomb out of his equipment bag and dropping it, and running towards Dark Force! As Julian nears the abomination, he crouches and makes a running leap, gaining enough energy from his partial charge to make it to DF's kneecap! Julian doesn't rest, and uses his collected Smash energies to keep criss-crossing his way up DF's body, nimbly trying to evade the dark one's assumed swats while jumping from side to side! Julian reaches the end of his climb, landing on DF. Julian then makes his move, launching himself across DF's face with a Tornado Whirlwind Kick to roundhouse the big bad repeatedly in the face to add insult to injury and hopefully stunning hm long enough for Julian to finish up! Jules immediately leaps off DF's left shoulder upon arrival, swan dives down, and tucks and rolls to safety behind the big ugly... right next to the core! Julian comes out of his roll, slaps the bomb on the core, and activates it!* "LET'S GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!"

Dr. Robotnik: "Now what I am to do..." He thinks. "We shouldn't leave yet. It'd be a fool's errand to remove it, but there has to be a way..." He looks to Digi. "How can I rule a field of destroyed debris, Digi?"

Digifanatic: "You have a point."

Dr. Robotnik: "I didn't expect a being of darkness to also possess high quality radioactive materials... ...Especially one who is big on the magic."

Deloth: "Unfortunately, I can't do much about it either."

Metal Man (GM): Beeping can be heard inside the ship.

Digifanatic: "Oh no..." *runs in.*

Metal Man (GM): It's... Red text.

Red Text: 'I know everything. I can resolve this issue... at a price.'

Digifanatic: "Yes, we're gonna blow up the meteor, what else do you want?!"

Red Text: 'In fact, the price is exactly the same as what I need to resolve the problem.'

Digifanatic: "Is this going to be test number five?"

Red Text: 'Robotnik possesses the only non-jammable teleport. And I possess the ability to power it and set it to coordinates such that the Dark Force and the explosive are sealed away, where they can explode safely out of range. You could call it that.'

Digifanatic: "Okay, that's a start." *runs back out.* "Robotnik, where is your teleportation device? Red Text says we can use it to isolate the meteor such that it won't harm any innocent planets."

Dr. Robotnik: "I saw." He shakes his head. "Give Red Text an unblockable teleport? No! You have to trust me. I can find a way to..." He smirks. "Do his plan entirely without him!"

Digifanatic: "Huh?"

Dr. Robotnik: "This is an entire planetoid. The explosion must be a certain radius to hit the planet. Even at full power, he has to be where he is now to hit the planet."

Digifanatic: "Really? Even with what the core can supply the bomb with?"

Dr. Robotnik: "We have broken his security and he is preoccupied enriching the bomb. If we reroute the movement coordinates to..." He types... "We could wipe out the ship without endangering the planet. Of course. You will have to accompany me to a sensitive part of the Meteor... and I may just line my pockets with some technology... but fair is fair. I won't doublecross you like HIM."

Rinith: "Should I leave... these two here?"

Digifanatic: "Doctor, we don't have much else of a choice right now! I'm ready."

Dr. Robotnik: "I have the time right here." He takes out a timer. It's counting down to 0... .and is at 27 minutes. "Let me heal your teammates first."

Metal Man (GM): He takes out a television and smashes it on the dead Dragoshi. What the heck?!?!

Dragoshi: *TVS ARE FOOD.*

Metal Man (GM): Dragoshi awakens to the sound of a 1-up jingle.

Dragoshi: *Gets up, wondering how he just got brought back to life so quickly.*

Metal Man (GM): Robotnik then begins smashing televisions on everyone else, including the people who aren't dead. They are healed. He then looks at his stash and shrugs.

Dr. Robotnik: "I only have three more, so don't die too much more!"

Rinith: "Gah... what the heck?"

Julian: "...K."

Kenku gets up, and looks at himself, and surprisingly sees himself in real good shape "What the hell just happened?"

Dr. Robotnik: "Well, I smashed a television on you, and then you got a 1-up. Which heals you. I don't know how it works, I just steal them from zones. Now let's get going!"